Quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The general conclusion .. many terms and ideas, which at one time were regarded as exclusively Biblical, are found to belong to the common…

— John Courtenay James

“It is found that Assyrian and Canaanite have certain terms in common, which are not found in other Semitic languages.”

— John Courtenay James

“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions is seen…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The Bible of Jesus of Nazareth, for instance, was Semitic, the earliest utterances and traditions of the Gospel were Semitic.”

— James John Courtenay

“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must be explained…

— James John Courtenay

“The Proto-Semitic phonological system contains perhaps twenty-nine consonantal phonemes, which despite certain modifications have been conserved with great fidelity in languages like Arabic.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“But the Semitic names did possess meaning in Semitic languages: they were the words for familiar objects (’aleph = ox, beth = house, gimel…

— Jared Diamond

“It is generally accepted that a biconsonantal root predominated in the Hamito-Semitic languages.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillosnz-Badillos

“For the culture of the Semites was Sumerian, the Semitic races owing their civilization to the Sumerians. That is as much as to say…

— Leonard William King

“In the earliest days, then, Egypt received elements of Sumerian culture through a Semitic medium, which introduced Semitic elements into the language of the…

— Leonard William King